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New Domain extension opportunity - .me
2007-10-18 12:30:00
The eastern European country of Montenegro is getting its own domain extension, and it has the chance to produce some fun domain names. Montenegro’s new domain is “.me“. If you have any entrepreneurial bones in your body the potential is filling your head. Examples: buy.me find.me hire.me pay.me text.me The domains are are scheduled to be available for registration during the ...
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Banner Ads and the Mystical Ad Blindness
2007-10-16 09:55:00
Have you thought of using banner ads in your marketing? Ad blindness (aka banner blindness) is becoming an increasing issue for advertisers. Think of Times Square (on the left), do you really get anything from all of those billboards, or do you just ignore them? When marketing on the internet, banner ads are a common medium ...
More About: Internet Marketing , Blog Marketing , Banner , Blindness , Myst

Updating the ?Beginner?s Guide to Search Engine Optimization?
2007-10-15 08:15:00
The group at SEOmoz are revamping their “Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization ”. If you have not taken the time to better understand how the search engines (mainly Google , Yahoo , MSN and Ask) work, then it is time to start. The majority of you are working on internet startups or at the very least have ...
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How Important is SEO on your Startup?s Priority List?
2007-10-11 18:25:00
I just walked out of a meeting with a startup, fighting the continual battle of what priority does SEO have when put into the programming queue. This meeting worked in my favor because a month ago the SEO plan was deemed “low priority”. This week, as traffic numbers slump, SEO has been bumped to “high ...
More About: Internet Marketing , List , Startup , Priority

How the new Google PageRank will Affect Startups.
2007-10-09 09:15:00
The online marketing community is buzzing about the new Google PageRank (PR) update and the number of sites that are dropping PR. If you are a seasoned internet marketer this update creates enough problems, but those new startups with fresh sites, you have a chance to stay clear of the new line ...
More About: Internet Marketing , Page Rank , Pagerank , Google Pagerank

Guerrilla Marketing with LinkedIn Answers
2007-10-04 16:53:00
As facebook slowly eats away at the networking need of LinkedIn (at least in the startup world), LinkedIn actually has one valuable (guerrilla marketing) tool that facebook doesn’t….Answers . LinkedIn Answers is a Q&A system much like Yahoo Answers but with the business slant. LI Answers is great because the responses you get ...
More About: Marketing , Guerrilla , Internet Marketing , Guerrilla Marketing

Google Analytics Issues - Paid vs. Direct Traffic
2007-10-02 17:39:00
As of Saturday the 29th of September, Google Analytics has only been counting roughly 15% of my PPC (adwords) traffic. At the same time my direct traffic has doubled. I’m not positive that GA is counting “paid traffic” as “direct traffic” but I do know that all of the tracking scripts have not been changed ...
More About: Traffic , Issues , Direct , Paid

Is your New Company a Killer Startup?
2007-10-01 13:15:00
The domain name says it all, Killer Startup s.com. Do you really need us to explain further? Killer Startups is a fantastic site that allows readers (or the Killer Startups crew) to submit internet startups that can be voted as “Killer” in a Digg-like fashion. The top 10 Killer Startups (KS) list should be the target for ...
More About: Internet Marketing , Company , Guerrilla Marketing

When to Submit to a Social News Site
2007-09-25 19:57:00
By “when” I mean down to the hour of the day. It can make a big difference considering the two largest population regions in America are separated by 3 hours. You also have to consider the day of the week. Posting a great, compelling (linkbait?) article is most often the best way to drive traffic ...
More About: News , Social , Internet Marketing , Site , Submit

Testing BlogRush
2007-09-21 10:10:00
Startup Hustle has added the BlogRush widget. There has been a ton of buzz about the widget with early reports giving it less than stellar results, but we are interested regardless. This is how BlogRush works: “By adding the BlogRush Widget to a blog, a blogger can get instant distribution for their latest blog post titles ...
More About: Testing , Blog Marketing

Need Press but Outside the Valley?
2007-09-19 15:49:00
Many startups are located outside Silicon Valley (Austin, Boston, New York, Seattle) and have trouble getting press. The majority of the startup media is located in the Valley and likes to talk about…..the Valley. A growing startup needs all the press and mentions they can get, so take advantage of your “exotic” location by submitting ...
More About: Internet Marketing , Press

Will Gatineau Challenge Google Anayltics?
2007-09-17 16:14:00
As new screen shots of Microsoft s up coming analytics software named Gatineau are being released, we are still anxiously awaiting an invite to the beta. Reports from around the blogosphere are the beta should launch sometime this week. Startup Hustle is looking forward to a competitor to Google Analytics . The more data points ...
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Dont Bid on the Word ?Keywords?
2007-09-14 18:59:00
I know, I know…..who would do that? Apparently it is a growing problem that can be an expensive mistake. It happens (most commonly) when you copy a keyword list from Excel or even Word and grad the header of the list called…..’Keywords ’. If you search the term ‘Keywords’ in Yahoo you will notice a few companies that ...
More About: Google , Adwords

When AdPreview Saves Your Life (An Adwords Tale)
2007-09-07 15:54:00
The other day I got a call from the CEO and Founder of a company I work for asking why his main keywords, which are usually in positions 2-4, were either at the bottom of the first page or not on the page at all. As I run through the possible reasons in my head, ...
More About: Google , Life , Adwords , Tale , Aves

Adwords Secret Negative Keyword Tool?..Sort of.
2007-08-14 16:06:00
Google Adwords recently released a new report called ?Search Query Report?. This report will show you which search terms prompted your ad to show (an impression). The report gives you the complete statistics for that keyword (clicks, conversions ect.). Google provided this report so that advertisers could find new keywords to bid on. Being ...
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Because Google was not Making Enough Money
2007-08-13 18:32:00
Google?s new algorithm change to Adwords is simply a way to make more money. That?s it. Don?t think it will really improve the quality. There is no way that adding a part to the algorithm that favors those that spent the most money is going to improve quality. Who will this hurt most? Small businesses that ...
More About: Google , Money , Makin